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With meticulous care the archeologist's pick & shovel gang cleared the entrance to another old tomb. Here, atop Monte Alban which overhangs the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, might be some treasure which the Spanish Conquistadores had missed. Monte Alban had been a fortress of the anciently rich and powerful Mixtecs, or Cloud People. Within the walls they had built their temples and palaces. Here too were tombs of the Caciques, feudal nobles. The hilltop now is all tumbled debris. Professor Alfonso Caso, archeologist of the National Museum of Mexico, has had a gang clearing buried walls, sifting dirt...
Nobody really knew where Troy had stood till Heinrich Schliemann came along and dug it up. Schliemann was not a professional archeologist but a retired indigo tycoon who made his pile and then dug for fun, for treasure, and to satisfy his belief in the literal truth of Homer...
...made a small fortune in California, became a U. S. citizen), to Russia, where he lived many years and made a disastrous first marriage. Schliemann's hobby was languages. At 33 he spoke 15 tongues but was concentrating on ancient Greek. He was 44 when he turned archeologist...
...amateur beats the solid expert every time. ... If Schliemann had at the beginning known the state of Homeric research ... he would have regarded the Trojan War as a legend, and would have spent neither time nor ambition nor money on it. He succeeded purely because he was not an archeologist...
...Seneca Indian) was invited last week to solve what promised to be an interesting problem. At Auriesville, N. Y., site of the shrine to North America's eight Roman Catholic saints (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), excavators had discovered two complete skeletons and the skull of a third. Archeologist Parker was asked to determine their identity. They might be the remains of three of the eight saints?Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and John Lalande, Jesuit missionaries?who were slain near Auriesville by Iroquois Indians in the middle of the 17th Century...